The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1887-11-06
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| PARIS, Oct. 20--Tho craze for Russian NO
ton ragged furiously In Paris many n,onthe
before foundations Of foundations OF Tolstol
and Dostoisvsky were presented TO the Amer
can public. commented upon By the critlcs'
and lauded to the skies by W. D. Howolls.
Through Tourgueneh. who lived for many
yesrs In Paris, the French literary mon were
prepared TO look for literary excellence In Rus
sia. Indeed. Tourguener became quite q
Partisan celebrity, he was one o; tho Flsubert
Get, and apparently hand In glove with Al
, phonss Daudet Edmond de Gonoourt, and
I the high swells Of the modern French novel.
| who. when he died. oil followed him TO his
| grave and wept for deconcy's sake. am
aware that ordinary magazine writer's who
initiate their critical windbags with nfth-hand
inspiration, are accustomed to present Tour
guenen In the light Of noble. generous,
pstriarchal genius having all the talents and
all the virtues imaginable. I do not
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telkIna over thlpgs IN general and men In par
sn 9 Sanas Sa so Con-
| court, " do you remembor the day TourRu6nen
gHsner called Tor the Bin, and Verified the sd.
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e. & man. thsS SAID And q ., NritsT my found
that Toarsnener had no sense Of. style. and
never. could understand why those Frenohmen
snd phrase b nd
story teller. and that In talking he had q knacE
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spd 0 vo s yu ssSas and That na
uraiiy tsrned to SOC what Fourgue nefi thought
Of bis critics. bis dear fEicnds whom be used
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tst esY Yssen what HnS n1ty n: simply b %
ment which .Tonreu snefi. passes on one Of the
m 4. charming and most 9slLGins Of Psrisian
court, Toarauenetf pronoances bis novels to
BE- false and hammered, and adds many other
b.sdss VAS sh msee
bic old slav" vas not frank and loyal.
sa'
HE et any rate does not take . dark view Of
s His 5s the pppost3 Of these
and Ss Bse a. IL
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from beginning to end; not ono Of the charac.
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neyesiist he does not deserys to Be criticised.s
II s9sS %hoss
has been turned BY his own greatness. and he
Il pd 10 him. assEfs dess
not know any Language; he has not read Q
ss nG esse Tss ct his
interrupted ne and began to paint a literary
.os. Sss| ss.a Hugo in an ol,mplan
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Europe has not his sapal," This Judgment
ell the mS ss so .xs1: s. T se and
terms. The beginning of their relations was
unhappy. and their correspondence bears con-
the orimesp war be was iSea@entIE the guest
more nor or less OF a iibertine. and Tourxueneff
wanted to correct him Of his Incorporate hab-
Its s the san To Is had the 81
eerity Of his fellow men. In short. Toisfoi must
have been unendnrable; he delighted In irri-
s s Bat in Isp,ie p Toistois i and
spssR sGasqs sn
S'The. Cossacts,S and Anna KareninS"
especially and na in 1871 after Elk
made up their quarrel, and afterward every
time Tcgrguenen went to Russia he paid .
sssy To ha
s sss E tie sn as
contemplate as thief Tourgufneh scoffed
ct these thso,riss; but a few weeks later be
his MONEY to G the poor and tRat bis hobbs o h
Sssn 1h o that his W
enough, his elder, brother, Nicolas Tolstoi de-
Tended and carried into execution the same
BOOK. WY keiEon He sharsd p his bed Il and M,
his bread with beggars. and lived in miserable
appears. had fatal passion for strong drinks,
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and Of the writer. He denied that he had either
Psyl9vsky quotes many letters Of Dostoieysky
and insupportable creature. Those who are
curious to know what Dostoievsky thought
novel, The Demons" Or" Les Possedes," as it
Is called in the French translation. The char
acter OF Karmaznoff Is meant for Tourgusneif,
who replied IN his letters by all kinds Of ugly
words against Dostoievsky. whom he calls :" the
MARQUIS de Sade OF Russian literature"
Let us now come to Tourgu6neff's opinions
about his own works. His most artistic, novel
he considered to be the one known In French
as Faux Printanieres," or Spring Waters"
This novel, he said, was his own history. The
heroine Nine. Polo2off is an incarnation of tho
Princess Troubet2koi, who attracted great
First Love " he considered. on tho whole, to
be the best Of his stories. and the Memories
dun Chasseur" the feeblest.
Tourgueneff studied In Germany. and thus
became initiated into those ideas Of liberalism
which caused him to fight all his life against
the Institution Of serfdom. He began to write
In 1886. His first work was o drama From
1s4l to ls46 he was Obliged to work for his living
wished him TO enter the service and become
tciinopnik., Nine. Tourgu6neT. In presence Of
his refusal Ordprpu him tn look after himsaIf